House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, voted for the farm bill although speakers traditionally don't vote. The bill was passed 216-208.

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Ed O?Keefe
| The Washington Post

House Republicans successfully passed a farm bill Thursday by splitting apart funding for food stamps from federal agricultural policy, a move that infuriated the White House and congressional Democrats who spent most of the day trying to delay a final vote.

Lawmakers voted 216 to 208 to make changes to federal agricultural policy and conservation programs and end direct subsidy payments to farmers. But the measure says nothing about funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, which historically constitutes about 80 percent of the funding in a farm bill.